IAR Systems announced that the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for Arm® has been used by NTT DOCOMO, a leading telecommunications company in Japan, for the development of its smart agriculture support platform Farm Assist. NTT DOCOMO's Farm Assist service was launched in 2019 and collects data obtained from sensors installed in a farm via access points to a company's cloud, enabling users to check and manage farm conditions using smartphones and PCs. The system enables users to manage daily farm work records and future production plans, streamlining various farm work as well as contributing to the realization of highly productive and strategic farm management.

The quality of the code in this agriculture support platform is essential for NTT DOCOMO. IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm was evaluated for its extremely fast compiling and checking features, which is essential to ensure the quality of the code. In addition, considering the future demands for security implementation and multi-vendor capability, it was necessary for NTT DOCOMO to select an integrated development environment with high scalability.